EP0216631B1 - Procédé pour alimenter une pièce - Google Patents

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EP0216631B1
EP0216631B1 EP86307294A EP86307294A EP0216631B1 EP 0216631 B1 EP0216631 B1 EP 0216631B1 EP 86307294 A EP86307294 A EP 86307294A EP 86307294 A EP86307294 A EP 86307294A EP 0216631 B1 EP0216631 B1 EP 0216631B1
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Shuji Hamada
Akira Yamamoto
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Niigata Engineering Co Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/22—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors
    • B65G47/24—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors orientating the articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23Q—DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
    • B23Q7/00—Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting
    • B23Q7/16—Loading work on to conveyors; Arranging work on conveyors, e.g. varying spacing between individual workpieces
    • B23Q7/18—Orienting work on conveyors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23Q—DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
    • B23Q7/00—Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting
    • B23Q7/04—Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting by means of grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23Q—DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
    • B23Q7/00—Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting
    • B23Q7/14—Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting co-ordinated in production lines
    • B23Q7/1426—Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting co-ordinated in production lines with work holders not rigidly fixed to the transport devices
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49998—Work holding

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  • the present invention relates to a method of feeding a work in a predetermined attitude or three dimensional position to a processing apparatus such as a machine tool.
  • the present invention provides a method of feeding a work, in which a jig having an attitude controlling groove formed therein is prepared.
  • a first work is controlled to assume a predetermined attitude by placing the work in the attitude controlling groove.
  • the jig is conveyed to a first position so that the attitude controlling groove is located at a second position.
  • the first work is moved to a third position in the attitude contolling groove and the first work at the third position is transferred to a processing device.
  • the bottom portion of the attitude controlling groove is provided at a width substantially equal to the width of the first work to allow the first work to assume the predetermined attitude and to allow movement of the first work to a third position.
  • a leg of a positioning member tapers towards its end and is equal in width to the first work, and this leg is inserted into the attitude controlling groove.
  • FIG. l illustrates a work feeding apparatus according to the present invention, in which reference numeral 20 designates a first pallet magazine of a conventional type, in which a plurality of pallets 22 are vertically stacked and from bottom of which pallets 22 are subsequently placed on a first pallet belt conveyor 24 and then conveyed rightwise in FIG. l to a second pallet belt conveyor 26, which carries it to a second pallet magazine 28 of the same type as the first pallet magazine 20.
  • Each pallet 22 is, as illustrated in FIG. 2, provided with a plurality of work receiving recesses 30, ... disposed in columns and rows, each of the columns and rows including ten recesses 30 although only six recesses are illustrated.
  • Each recess 30 is designed to receive a work W in it.
  • the Works W are placed in recesses 30 with a pitch P1 in the row direction and a pitch P2 in the column direction.
  • the first and second pallet conveyors 24 and 26 have first and second work column detecting device 32 and 34 disposed adjacent to them, respectively.
  • the first and second work column detecting devices 32 and 34 allow the pallets 22, located below their detecting arms 36 and 38, to intermittently move the pitch Pl of the works W.
  • a feeding belt conveyor 40 and a returning belt conveyor 42 in a parallel manner.
  • the endless belt 44 of the feeding belt conveyor 40 extends around a drive pulley 46, idle pulleys 48, 50 and 52 and a tension pulley 54.
  • the upper portion of the endless belt 44A is, as clearly shown in FIG. l0, supported by an inverted U-shaped channel member 56 mounted on a frame 58 along the endless belt 44. Part of the endless belt 44 passes through the channel portion of the channel member 56.
  • the endless belt 60 of the returning belt conveyor 42 has the same driving and supporting mechanisms as the feeding belt conveyor 40.
  • the feeding belt conveyor 40 moves its belt 44 in the same direction as the first and second pallet conveyors 24 and 26 while the returning belt conveyor 42 moves its belt 60 in the reverse direction as indicated by the arrows in FIG. l.
  • the feeding and returning belt conveyors 40 and 42 have each a pair of angular guide members 62 and 62 screwed to flanges 64 of the channel member 56 to face their guide plate portions 66 and 66 across the endless belt 44 or 60 as shown in FIG. l0.
  • the forward portion 66A of the guide plate portion of each guide member disposed inside is, as shown in FIG. 7, bent inwards so that a jig 67 is guided to an appropriate position on the endless belt 44 or 60.
  • first bridging plate 68 Between the starting portion 40A of the feeding belt conveyor 40 and the terminal portion 42B of the returning belt conveyor 42 is a rectangular first bridging plate 68, which is inclined to be gradually raised toward the returning belt conveyor 42.
  • second bridging plate 70 between the terminal portion 40B of the feeding belt conveyor 40 and the starting portion 42A of the returning belt conveyor 42 so that the second bridging plate 70 is inclined to be gradually raised toward the feeding belt conveyor 40.
  • Such inclined bridging plates 68 and 70 facilitate traversing movement of jigs 67 by first and second transversely moving devices 72 and 74 which will be described hereinafter.
  • each guide plate 76 Disposed on the inside of each of the first and second bridging plates 68 and 70 is a guide plate 76 for guiding jigs 67 on the bridging plate 68 or 70.
  • Each guide plate 76 is bent inward at its forward end 76A for appropriately guiding jigs 67.
  • a first handling device 80 Disposed near starting portions of the first pallet conveyor 24 and the feeding belt conveyor 40 is a first handling device 80 including a conventional cam mechanism (not shown) for carrying ten works W of one column on a pallet 22 to a jig 67 located on the starting portion 40A of the feeding belt conveyor 40.
  • the first handling device 80 includes a vertical rotation shaft 82, designed to turn 90° and to move vertically by the cam mechanism, and a holding arm 84 horizontally mounted at its proximal end to the rotation shaft 82, the holding arm 84 having a vacuum suction head (not shown) mounted to its distal end for holding one column of works W by vacuum.
  • the holding arm 84 holds one column of works W by the suction head at a suction position shown by the solid line in FIG.
  • a first transversely moving device 72 is disposed near the start portion 40A of the feeding belt conveyor 40 for transversely moving a jig 67 which is located at the terminal portion 42B of the returning belt conveyor 42 to the start portion 40A of the feeding belt conveyor 40 and a second transversely moving device 74 near the terminal portion 40B of the feeding belt conveyor 40 for transversely moving a jig 67, which is located at the terminal portion 40B, to the starting portion 42A of the returning belt conveyor 42.
  • each of the transversely moving devices 72, 74 includes an air cylinder 86 mounted on a frame 58 and a generally L-shaped stopping and moving member 88 attached to the rod 90 of the air cylinder 86.
  • Each air cylinder 86 is disposed so that the stroke of its rod 90 is perpendicular to the movements of the belts of the feeding and returning belt conveyors 40 and 42.
  • the L-shaped member 88 has a stopping block 92 and a pulling plate 94 integrally formed with the stopping block 92 at right angle and is mounted to the rod 90 so that the pulling plate 94 is disposed parallel to the belts of the feeding and the returning conveyors 40 and 42, and so that the stopping block 92 stops a jig, conveyed by the feeding belt conveyor 40 or the returning belt conveyor 42, with the inner face thereof.
  • Each of the first and second transversely moving devices 72 and 74 further has a pair of parallel guide rods 96 mounted to the frame 58 to be perpendicular to the moving directions of the endless belts 44 and 60 and passing through a corresponding stopping block 92 so that the stopping block 92 may be slidably moved.
  • each jig 67 has a plurality of, ten in this embodiment, attitude controlling grooves 87 formed in its top face at intervals of P2 to be parallel to each other and a plurality of ridges 98 formed in its bottom face to correspond to respective attitude controlling grooves 87.
  • Each of the attitude controlling grooves 87 serves to control a work W received in it to take a predetermined attitude or three dimensional position with respect to it.
  • the attitude controlling grooves 87 have each a rectangular cross section at its bottom portion l00 and a trapezoidal cross section widening upwards at its upper and intermediate portion l02.
  • the bottom portion l00 has a width substantially equal to the width of the works W but enough for receiving them in it and removing them from it.
  • the width of the opening portion of the grooves 87 is considerably wider than the width of the works W.
  • the retaining device l06 Mounted to the frame 58 near the starting portion 40A of the feeding belt conveyor 40 is a retaining device l06 for retaining a jig 67 at the starting portion 40A as shown in FIG. l.
  • the retaining device l06 includes an air cylinder l08 mounted on the frame 58 and a rod ll0 of the air cylinder l08 is adapted to pass through a cutout ll2 (FIG. 8) formed in an outer guide plate 62 attached to the frame 58 along the feeding belt conveyor 40.
  • a positioning device ll4 including a pair of first and second positioning members ll6 and ll8, which serve to move a work W to a suction position along one attitude controlling groove 87 of the jig 67 located at the central portion of the feeding belt conveyor 40 as shown in FIG. l.
  • a third handling device l26 having the same structure as the first handling device 80 is disposed near the terminal portion 40B of the feeding belt conveyor 40.
  • the third handling device l26 transports one column of processed works from a jig 67, located at the terminal portion 40B of the feeding belt conveyor 40, to a pallet 22 which has been conveyed to a loading position l28 shown by the phantom line in FIG. l.
  • Each of the first and second work column detecting devices 32 and 34 includes an air cylinder l30, mounted to the frame 58 near a corresponding pallet conveyor 24 or 26, and a detecting arm 36, mounted on the rod l32 of the air cylinder l30 to project transversely over the pallet conveyor 24 or 26.
  • Each detecting arm 36 has a conventional photo detector (not shown) mounted on its lower face for detecting recesses 87 of a pallet 22 on the corresponding pallet conveyor 24 or 26.
  • the photo detector of the first work column detecting device 32 detects one recess 87 just below it, it generates a signal representing that one column of works W are positioned at a suction position shown just below the holding arm 84 of the first handling device 80.
  • This signal is sent to a control unit l34 including a central processing unit (not shown).
  • the control unit l34 then deenergizes an electric motor l36 of the first pallet conveyor 24 for stopping the latter and actuates the air cylinder l30 to move the detecting arm 36 to the position shown by the solid line in FIG. l not to impinge upon the holding arm 84.
  • the photo detector In the second work column detecting device 34, the photo detector generates a signal representing that one column of recesses 30 of another pallet 22 are located to a position where one column of works processed are placed on the pallet 22.
  • This signal is also sent to the control unit l34, which then deenergizes an electric motor l38 of the second pallet conveyor 26 for stopping the latter and actuates the air cylinder l30 of the second pallet conveyor 26 to move the detecting arm to a position indicated by the solid line in FIG. l to be away from the holding arm 84 of the third handling device l26.
  • the positioning device ll4 includes first and second sliders l40 and l42 slidably mounted around a pair of parallel guide rods l44 and l44 which are attached at their opposite ends to the frame 58 to pass perpendicularly under the feeding belt conveyor 44.
  • the first and second sliders l40 and l42 are attached to rods l48 of respective air cylinders l46 mounted to the frame 58 for moving along the guide rods l44.
  • the first and second positioning members ll6 and ll8 have a generally ⁇ -shape and are made of a metal plate.
  • the first positioning member ll6 has first and second parallel legs l52 and l54 formed integrally with its horizontal portion l50 to project perpendicularly from the latter.
  • the two legs l52 and l54 have recesses l56 and l57 formed in their distal ends respectively to loosely fit a projection l58 of work W in them.
  • the second positioning member ll8 has also first and second parallel legs l60 and l62 which project perpendicularly from its horizontal portion l50 so that their distal ends face the distal ends of the first and second legs l52 and l54 of the first positioning member ll6, respectively.
  • the distal end of the first leg l60 has a trapezoidal shape tapering toward its end and the second leg l62 is rectangular in plan view.
  • the first legs l52 and l60 are equal in width to works W and the second legs l54 and l62 are slightly smaller in width than works W.
  • the distance Dl between the centers of the legs l52 and l54 and the distance D2 between the centers of the legs l60 and l62 are equal to the pitch P2 of the attitude controlling grooves 87.
  • a groove detecting device l64 is provided to the frame 58 for detecting an attitude controlling groove 87 of a jig 67, in which groove a work W to be moved to a suction position is received.
  • the groove detecting device l64 includes a conventional light emitting element l66 disposed behind the first positioning member ll6 and a conventional light receiving element l68 disposed in front of the second positioning member ll8.
  • the light receiving element 168 normally receives light from the light emitting element 166 and when the light is intercepted by one of the ridges 98 of jig 67, the light receiving element 168 produces an electric signal, which is provided to the control unit 134, which in turn deenergizes the electric motor 170 of the feeding belt conveyor 40 to stop the latter.
  • the light from the light emitting element 166 passes through holes 172 and 172 formed through the sliders 140 and 142, holes 174 and 174 formed through guide plates 66 of the feeding belt conveyor 40.
  • the second handling device 120 includes a center shaft 176 concentrically mounted around an output shaft 178 of a conventional barrel cam mechanism 180.
  • the output shaft 178 passes through a support sleeve 181 mounted on the frame 58 and is supported on it to be both rotatable about a vertical axis and vertically slidable.
  • the center shaft 176 has a pair of arms 182 and 182 projecting radially outwards in the opposite directions.
  • Each arm 182 has a conventional vacuum head 184 and 184 attached to the lower face of its free end, the vacuum head 184 being communicated through an evacuating passage (not shown) which is formed through the arms 182 and the center shaft 176, to a conventional vacuum unit (not shown) including a vacuum pump 185 (FIG. 13).
  • an input shaft 186 of the barrel cam mechanism 180 is connected to an output shaft 188 of a drive unit 190, including an electric motor 192 (FIG. 13), through a drive timing belt pulley 194, a timing belt 196 and a driven timing belt pulley 198.
  • a drive unit 190 including an electric motor 192 (FIG. 13)
  • the center shaft is forced to both turn about the vertical axis and move vertically from a waiting position shown by the solid line to a suction position shown by the phantom line in FIG. 12 when the drive unit 190 is actuated.
  • pallets 22, in the recesses 30 of which works W are received in columns and rows, are stacked in the pallet magazine 20 and then pallets 22 are subsequently conveyed from the bottom of the pallet magazine 20 by actuating the first pallet conveyor 24.
  • a work detection signal is provided from the photo detector 27 (FIG. l3) of the first work column detecting device to the control unit l34, which according to this signal deenergizes the electric motor l36 of the first pallet conveyor 24, thus stopping the first pallet 22A in position.
  • control unit l34 actuates a solenoid vale 202 of the air cylinder l30 of the first work column detecting device 32 to move the detecting rod 36 to a position shown by the solid line in FIG. l, after which the control unit l34 energizes an electric motor 204 of the first handling device 80, of which handling arm 84 is thus raised from the jig position, indicated by the phantom line, turned 90° and then descended to a pallet position indicated by the solid line in FIG. l.
  • the handling arm 84 reaches to the pallet position, the front column of works W at the sucking position are sucked by suction heads of the handling arm 84.
  • the control unit l34 energizes the electric motor 204 to rotate in the reverse direction for returning the handling arm 84 back to the jig position.
  • the suction heads insert each work W into a corresponding attitude control groove 87 of a first jig 67A which is located at the starting position 40A of the feeding conveyor 40, where the work W is guided by inclined walls l04 of the groove 87 into the bottom portion l00 to assume a predetermined attitude.
  • the control unit l34 deenergizes the electric motor 204 for stopping the handling arm 84.
  • the control unit l34 actuates a solenoid valve 206 of the retaining device l06 for retracting the rod ll0 of the air cylinder l08, so that the jig 67A supplied with works W is conveyed toward the positioning device ll4.
  • the groove detector l64 detects that a work W, received in the leading attitude control groove 87, reaches to the handling position, it provides a work detection signal to the control unit l34, which in turn deenergizes the electric motor l70 of the feeding conveyor 40 for stopping the leading work W at the handling position.
  • control unit l34 actuates solenoid valves 208, 2l0 of the air cylinders l46 of the first and second positioning member ll6 and ll8, thus moving the first and second sliders l40, l42 toward each other for clamping the leading work W between legs l52 and l60, in which event the work W which is located out of the suction position 2l2 (FIG. 4) in the leading attitude control groove 87 is moved exactly to the suction position 2l2.
  • control unit l34 deactivates the solenoid valve 208 of the first air cylinder l46 and the first slider l40 is thus returned back to the original position by retracting the rod l48 of the first air cylinder l46 Then, the control unit l34 actuates the electric motor l92 of the barrel cam mechanism l80 and the vacuum pump l85 of the vacuum unit, thus lowering the handling arms l82, at the waiting position shown by the solid line in FIG.
  • control unit l34 energizes the electric motor l70 of the feeding conveyor 40, thus forwarding the jig 67A at the handling position a distance of one pitch of the attitude controlling grooves 87.
  • the groove detector l64 provides again a work detection signal to the control unit l34, which similarly controls exchange of subsequent works W, processed and to be processed, between the first jig 67A and the rotary table l22.
  • legs l54 and l62 of the positioning members ll6 and ll8 locate the work W, which has been processed and then inserted in the leading groove, at an appropriate position while a subsequent work W placed in the second groove 87 is positioned at the suction position 2l2.
  • a second jig 67B is transported by the first transversely moving device 72 from the terminal portion 42B of the returning conveyor 42 to the start portion 40A of the feeding conveyor 40 and the detecting rod 36 of the first work column detecting device 32 is returned to the work column detection position, where it detects the subsequent second column of works W, thus stopping the pallet 22 in the same manner as above described. Then, the second column of works are transferred by the first handling device 80 from the second pallet 22 to the second jig 67B as in the first jig 67A.
  • the second jig 67B with the ten works W is conveyed from the starting portion 40A of the feeding conveyor 40 to the handling position simultaneously with the conveying of the first jig 67A from the handling position to the terminal portion 40B of the feeding conveyor 40.
  • a limit switch (not shown) disposed near the terminal portion 40B is actuated by the first jig 67A, thus providing an electric signal to the control unit l34, which in turn energizes the electric motor of the third handling device l26, which thus transfers the processed works W on the first jig 67A to a second empty pallet 22B in a manner similar to the first handling device 80 but in this case the operation of the third handling device l26 is operated in the reverse order.
  • the holding arm 84 of the third handling device l26 is lowered from the position shown by the phantom line in FIG. l to hold the ten processed works W by its vacuum head. Then, the holding arm 84 is raised and then rotated 90° to the position shown by the solid line, where it is lowered to insert the processed works into respective recesses 30 of the second pallet 22B. During this event, the second pallet 22B is stopped at the loading position, shown by the phantom line in FIG. l, by the second detecting device 34. After these operation, the third handling device l26 is returned to the original position.
  • the control unit l34 actuates a solenoid valve 2l4 of the air cylinder 86 of the second transversely moving device 74 for moving the empty first jig 67A to the returning conveyor 42 by the pulling plate 94, which is then retracted to the position shown by the solid line in FIG. 7.
  • the first jig 67A placed on the returning conveyor 42 is conveyed from the start portion 42A to the terminal portion 42B of the returning conveyor 42, where the first jig 42A is stopped by the stopping block 92 of the first transversely moving device 72.
  • the control unit l34 actuates the solenoid valve 2l8 of the first transversely moving device 72 for retracting the rod 90 of the air cylinder 86 thereof to move the first jig 67A to the start portion 40A of the feeding conveyor 40. Then, the control unit l34 deactivates the solenoid valve 2l8 for projecting the rod 90 of the air cylinder 86 to thereby return the stopping and moving member 88 to the original position shown by the solid line in FIG. 7.
  • the control unit l34 actuates the electric motor l38 of the second belt conveyor 26 and the second pallet 22B is thus conveyed to the second pallet magazine 28 where it is stored.
  • works W may be held by an electromagnet or a conventional mechanical holding means instead of the suction heads l84.
  • the shape of the attitude controlling grooves 87 depends on the shape of works W to be processed.
  • first and second transversely moving devices 72 and 74 belt conveyors or other conventional conveying mechanisms may be used.

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  1. Procédé pour alimenter une pièce, qui comprend les étapes consistant :
    a) à préparer un calibre (67) dans lequel est formée une gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude ;
    b) à contrôler une première pièce (W) afin qu'elle prenne une attitude prédéterminée, en plaçant la pièce (W) dans la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude ;
    c) à déplacer le calibre (67) jusqu'à une première position de façon que la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude se trouve dans une seconde position ;
    d) à déplacer alors la première pièce (W) jusqu'à une troisième position (212) dans la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude ; et
    e) à transférer la première pièce (W) se trouvant dans sa troisième position (212) à un dispositif d'usinage (122) ;
    caractérisé en ce que :
    f) une partie inférieure (100) de la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude présente une largeur sensiblement égale à la largeur de la première pièce (w) pour permettre à la première pièce (W) de prendre l'attitude prédéterminée et pour permettre le déplacement de la première pièce (W) jusqu'à une troisième position (212); et
    g) on introduit dans la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude une jambe (160), de largeur égale à celle de la première pièce (W), d'un organe de positionnement (116), la jambe (160) étant effilée vers son extrémité.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, qui comprend en plus l'étape consistant :
    h) à placer une seconde pièce, traitée par le dispositif d'usinage (122), dans la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude pendant l'étape de transfert (e) après que la première pièce (W) ait été retirée de la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude ; et
    i) à déplacer la seconde pièce Jusqu'à une quatrième position dans la gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, dans lequel le calibre (67) présente une série de gorges (87) de contrôle d'attitude qui sont formées en lui avec un pas P2 dans une direction, de façon que les gorges (87) de contrôle d'attitude soient parallèles entre elles, les gorges (87) de contrôle d'attitude comprenant une gorge avant (87) de contrôle d'attitude.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 3 qui comprend de plus, après l'étape de déplacement de la seconde pièce :
    j) le déplacement du calibre d'une distance correspondant au pas P2 de façon qu'une gorge (87) de contrôle d'attitude, qui suit immédiatement la gorge avant ayant reçu la pièce usinée, soit placée dans la seconde position ; et
    k) la répétition des étapes b) à j) pour les autres pièces.
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JP60263147A JPS62124851A (ja) 1985-11-22 1985-11-22 加工物の供給装置

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